I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.